Steans Center OCE Live Events - Winter '21

Welcome to the Steans Center’s Online Community Engagement (OCE) Live Events! A series of discussions, presentations and workshops led by our Community Partners, Faculty and Staff to explore social justice issues in an era of global pandemic and civic uprising.

1. 02/05 - Faith-based Community Work: Join us for a conversation with members from the Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership, the Council on American Islamic Relations-Chicago, and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs to learn about Islamic, Jewish and Christian efforts for social justice.
2. 02/12 - Incarceration: Documentary & Discussion
3. 02/19 - Mental Health - Please join Katie Bellamy, MA - Substance Misuse Prevention Specialist at DePaul's Office of Health Promotion & Wellness and Clinical Psychologist & founder of The Evolved Network, Sebastian White, for a discussion on the macro and micro impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health. This session will focus on best practices for self-care for students, faculty and community partners.
4. 02/26 - Housing Policy/Gentrification, Displacement and Economic Development: DePaul University Steans Center OCE presents: The Color Tax: Origins of the Modern Day Wealth Gap viewing and panel discussion. Joining us will be the Shame of Chicago documentary series director and producer, Chicago native and Founder of Chicago South Side Film Festival and a Chicago native sharing a story of their family's experience purchasing under the predatory home contract system.

• In a compelling narrative format, The Color Tax tells the story of how a system of predatory home contract sales during the 1950s and 60s plundered enormous sums of wealth from black families seeking the American dream of homeownership, but denied access to standard mortgages.